Store-service switch



(No Model.)

D. H. RICE. STORE SERVICE SWITCH.

Patented Apr. 19, 71887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE'.

DAVID HALL RICE, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

STORE-SERVICE SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,374, dated April 19, 1887.

Application filed November 26, 1886. Serial No. 219,895. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID HALL'RIcE, of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Cash-Railway Switches, of which the following is a specification.

Myimproveuient relates to switches for railways, and is intended, chiefly, for use upon ways for cash-carriers or other similar carrying-cars; and it consists of certain new and useful constructions and combinations of the same, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of arailwayprovided with a switch constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a portion of the same, looking from the line w 00 of Fig. 1. I

The carrier used upon this railway is the one patented to me May 19,1885,No-318,139.

The railway consists of two rails, A A, forming a main track. Another track, formed of the rails B B, is connected to thelatter in the following manner: The rail B is connected to the line A at the proper angle, as shown, and the rail B is connected to the rail A at the same angle. Between the points of junction of rails B and B with rail A the latter is cut away and removed. At the point where the rails B Ajoin a straight rod or tongue, 0, is suspended upon pivot c by means of a bracket, 0, extending downward from railsB A, and a corresponding ear, 0*, attached to tongue 0. The tongue 0 is of the proper length when its free end is brought in contact with rail B .to be in line with rail A, and when its free end is brought in contact with rail A, as shown in Fig. 1, to be parallel to rail B. In order to form a comparatively smooth surface between tongue Oand the rails A and Ain thesetwo positions, a thin strip of metal, e, is formed upon the tongue at its outer'end, projecting beyond it and overlapping either rail A or A, as the case may be.

and support the tongue Gthereon as it swings on its pivot.

When the carrier comes along upon the tracks B B, it passes onto the tracks A A by means of the switch-tongue O, and if it comes along tracks AA, going in the direction indicated by the arrow,it strikes against the tongue 0 and automatically shifts the same to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and in like manner passes on over the same.

The automatic shifting of the tongue by the carrier striking against it is facilitated by forming tongue 0 straight or with parallel sides, while the strip e allows this to be done and a smooth junction of the tongue 0 and rails to be made. The supportingroller d also insures thetongue just passing above the rails A A as it is shifted from side to side.

WVhat I claim as new and ofniy invention 1. The combination of rails A A, rails B B, and tongue 0, formed with strip or extension .e, overlapping the rails, substantially as described.

2. The combination of rails A A, rails B B, tongue 0, formed with extension 6 and roller d, and the horizontal bar beneath the roller, adapted for the latter to roll on, substantially as described.

DAVID HALL RICE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. Bno'wn, N. P Ocicme'roN. 

